‘The Versatility of Jazz Recordings’ a chapter in volume on recording edited by Amanda Bayley (Cambridge University Press)
‘Fascination and Fear: Responses to Early Jazz in Britain’ – a chapter in Overseas Blues edited by Professor Neil Wynn, (Routledge)
‘Jazz in Britain’ (with Dr. Pete Martin) – a chapter in a book on the history of jazz in Europe, edited by Walter Turkenburg, Wolfram Knauer and James Lincoln Collier
Panellist on round table discussion of Diaspora, RMA Research Students’ Conference, Leeds, January 2005
Guest lecture on jazz history presented at the University of Leeds, November 2004
'Jazz in Britain: the Recording Revolution' presented at the University of Surrey, 16th November 2004
‘Where’s the jazz in BASBWE?’ invited lecture at the Annual Conference of the British Association of Symphonic Bands and Wind Ensembles, Royal Northern College of Music, 2nd March 2004
‘The Concept of the Avant-Garde in Jazz’ to be presented at the International Association for Jazz Education Annual Conference, New York, January 2006
‘The Concept of the Avant-Garde in Jazz’ presented at the Fourth Biennial International Conference on Twentieth Century Music, University of Sussex, August 2005
‘Jazz Education in Britain, 1920-1935’ presented at Leeds International Jazz Conference, Leeds College of Music, 11th March 2005
‘A ‘Local Hero’: Bert Firman and the Evolution of Jazz in Britain’, presented at the International Association for Jazz Education Annual Conference, Long Beach, California, 8th January 2005
‘Improvisation and style in big band music’, pre-concert talk at Pyramid Arts Centre, Warrington, 20th November 2004
‘Responses to Early Jazz in Britain’ paper presented at the Overseas Blues: European Perspectives on African American Music conference at the University of Gloucestershire, 24th July 2004
‘Jazz in Britain: the recording revolution’ paper presented at the Leeds Jazz Conference, Leeds College of Music, 2nd April 2004
‘Shades of Blue’, pre-concert talk at Pyramid Arts Centre, Warrington, 17th January 2004
‘Early Jazz in Britain’ presented in the Research Seminar Series at the University of Leeds, 16th October 2003
‘Jazz and popular music: the significance of Swing when you’re winning’ paper presented at the Jyvaskyla Summer Jazz Conference, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, June 2003
‘A Black and Burning Shame: Black music theatre and race relations in Britain, 1903-1923’ presented at English music, concert life and English-language theatre 1830-1960 Study Day at the University of Birmingham Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, 9th May 2003
‘The popularity of jazz: an unpopular problem’ paper presented at Leeds International Jazz Education Conference, Leeds College of Music, 4th April 2003
‘Jazz in 1920s Britain: dance music on the BBC, plantation revues and the underworld of London’ paper presented at the International Association for Jazz Education Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, 11th January 2003
‘A contextual re-examination of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band’s British recordings’ paper presented at Society for Musical Analysis Study Day, University of Sheffield, 26th October 2002
‘A rough guide to A level music’ paper presented at the meeting of the Critical Musicology Forum at the University of Newcastle, 15th July 2002
‘The Concept of "Twoness" in In Dahomey: A Negro Musical Comedy' paper presented at Theory and Analysis Graduate Students Day (Society of Musical Analysis), Goldsmith’s College, University of London, 25th May 2002
‘The Image of Jazz in 1920s Britain: the plantation revues and the underworld of London’ paper presented at the Leeds Jazz Education Conference, Leeds College of Music, 23rd March 2002
‘Jazz in 1920s Britain: a consideration of the 'Jazz Age', Modernism and the Culture Industry’, seminar paper presented at the Music in Britain Seminar Group, Senate House, University of London (convenors Cyril Erhlich and Simon McVeigh), 11th February 2002
‘The ‘jazz age’ and modernism in Britain’ paper presented at Critical Musicology and High Modernism meeting of the Critical Musicology Forum at the University of Nottingham, 21st January 2002
‘The Evolving Presence of Jazz in Britain: a consideration of the symbolism and music of the banjo in imported black American Music c.1840-1920’ paper presented at RMA Research Students Conference, Royal College of Music, London, 19th December 2001
‘The Evolving Image of Jazz in Britain in Sheet Music’ paper presented at the Second Biennial Conference on Twentieth Century Music, Goldsmith’s College, University of London, 30th June 2001